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All about Soft tip Darts
Article Summary: The electronic dart board is definitely a hit for home users as the darts used have plastic tips which are safer and much less likely to put holes in your wall., so here is a run down on the more popular soft tip darts.
Soft tip darts are the darts you need when playing the electronic game, they have plastic tips to avoid damaging the electronic dart board, and so are safer to use than the traditional steel tip darts used on the bristle dart boards. Being plastic, the tips can be damaged during the game, so are made to be replaceable. They are simple to replace by using the special darts tool that normally comes with the set. Also again because they are plastic they are much less likely to damage your walls or even yourself, but I would still have a dartboard cabinet or dart backboard when using them at home. The soft tip darts are also generally lighter than their steel tip cousins and have a maximum weight of only 20 grams, which some of the traditional darters find are too light for them, being used to the heavier darts they used on the old style dartboards, and this has caused some controversy in the darts world and has divided it into two camps, those for the electronic darts game and those vehemently opposed to it.
All the major manufacturers now produce soft tip darts, with the famous black widow darts set from Laserdarts and the devastators from Bottelsen, just to name a couple and there are a lot of convertible darts sets around which give you a set of screw in steel tips as well as soft tips, like the skinnys from Bottelsen, so you can use the same darts for both the soft tip and the steel tip games, which is neat. The skinnys also have the famous hammerhead action steel tip inserts that reduce those infamous bounce outs on the wires of the bristle boards. Also the shafts and flights for the soft tip darts are just the same as for steel tip darts.
The black widow soft tips have the spider grip aluminium shafts which are supposed to grip the flights better; 4 wires made of steel are embedded into the aluminum and covered in rubber so that the wires grip hold of the flights tightly and you can choose from 16, 18 and 20 gram weights; so if you are in to arachnids, these are for you. They even have a set with a gold colored finish that look really cool called Gold Widow darts, (guess what color the black widow darts are?). Bottelsen have got some great soft tip darts as well, their devastators are very popular as well as the Nemesis set, which have the Bottelsen spinning shafts.
The most popular soft tip though is probably the Piranha, a mid to expensive priced dart that comes in all weights from 12 to the maximum 20 grams and now boasts their Razor grip, which is basically lots of small cuts in the barrel to give a rough surface to aid you in gripping the dart. They also come with “Top Spin” spinning shafts that allow the flight out of the dart to move out of the way if hit by an incoming dart.
The darts that come with the dart board sets are err….. how can I put it, not very good, so even the cheaper Soft tip Darts at $20-$30 or so would be a great improvement on those, so if you get one of the all in dartboard sets it is definitely worth investing in a decent set of darts as well.
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